CLOTHES COUPONS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 18, 22 January 1943, Page 4

CLOTHES COUPONS

DRAPERS CONCERNED

Concern at the evasion of the coupon system for clothing by itinerant traders has resulte4 in drapers and clothiers throughout the Dominion compiling records of door-to-door salesmen and sending them to the Rationing Controller with the suggestion that §ome cheeking system should be introduced, said the secretary of the New Zealand Drapers' Federation, Mr. G. L. Riley. yesterday. This is one of the topics to be discussed at the annual meeting of the federation early m March. Coupon returns were made each month to the controller in Wellington, but there wag no check whether sales corresponded witji the returns, he explained. The federation did n°t consider it fair that while the majority parried out their obligations, a few evaded them. x . , . .. ~ Reference to the value of the rationing system -was recently- made by an official of the federation, who said that With shipping and import restrictions few firm? would have been Utt in business if the coupon system had not operated Rationing had. not hindered business at Christmas when sales had. been records and there seemed to be ample coupons for the stocks ava.fr able. In regard to new stocks; he. considered that there would be little shortage in any outer apparel,